By Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul (CNN) — “Women and dried pollock need to be beaten every three days for better taste” – so goes an old saying that was common in South Korea in the 1960s when Choi Mal-ja was growing up in a small city in the country’s southeast. Back then, male violence against
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As festival season kicks off, DAP Health is taking proactive steps to promote harm reduction by distributing life-saving tools like narcan and fentanyl test strips. Each day, DAP will be stationed at the Palm Springs Convention Center, where they will be handing out free tools. It expects to hand out over 1,100 doses of narcan
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By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing United Healthcare’s chief executive officer, are asking a federal judge to block the Justice Department from seeking the death penalty, calling the decision a “political stunt.” Earlier this month Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the Justice Department would pursue the
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Zeleny, Samantha Waldenberg and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — A painting of an iconic scene of President Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania last summer now hangs in the Grand Foyer of the White House, after an official portrait of former President Barack Obama was moved from the location. The White
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole and Emily R. Condon, CNN (CNN) — Less than a day after the Supreme Court said the Trump administration had to “facilitate” the return of a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, the case appeared headed for even murkier waters. During a tense hearing before US District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday
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By Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security requested the Social Security Administration to enter more than 6,000 names of immigrants into its database used to track dead people, according to a DHS official with knowledge of the decision. The move will effectively financially starve the immigrants, cutting off their ability to
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By Alex Marquardt, Abbas Al Lawati and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — Delegations from Iran and the United States will meet again next week after wrapping up “constructive” nuclear talks that included the first direct contact between a Trump administration and an Iranian official, according to Iran’s state news agency. The talks, held in the
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Palm Springs tied the all-time heat record for April 10th yesterday, hitting 101 late in the afternoon. That tied the previous 1989 record. I’m anticipating temps in that range again today before we see some modest cooling through the weekend as high pressure still dominates the forecast. We’re still in the “Crescent of Heat” that
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By Betiana Fernández Martino and Hira Humayan, CNN (CNN) — Doctors in Argentina were already on high alert when a pregnant Russian woman showed up at the hospital on March 21 with two other women to give birth. Hospital staff in the Patagonian city of Bariloche had seen them before – four days earlier, they
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) — A house fire early Friday morning in Palm Desert resulted in one fatality and left another person in serious condition. The fire erupted shortly after 1 a.m. at a single-story home on Tamarisk Flower Drive in the Desert Palms neighborhood. Flames quickly engulfed the residence. Firefighters rescued two victims from the
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CNN By Gloria Pazmino, Lauren Mascarenhas and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A Louisiana immigration judge said Friday that Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil – a legal permanent resident – can be deported after the United States government argued his presence posed “potentially serious foreign policy consequences.” The decision by Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Jamee
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By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet announced Friday that he is running for governor in 2026 as the one-time presidential candidate looks to succeed term-limited Gov. Jared Polis. “Colorado, I’m running for Governor. From expanding the Child Tax Credit to securing $7B for Colorado’s infrastructure, we’ve made real progress together.
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By Alessandra Castelli and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro is in stable condition after being hospitalized for experiencing severe abdominal pain on Friday. The source of the pain was a “complication in the small intestine,” caused by the multiple surgeries he underwent after being stabbed in 2018, Bolsonaro said in
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PALM DESERT, Calif. — One person is dead and another is in serious condition after a fire broke out early Friday morning in a Palm Desert home. Firefighters responded to reports of a house fire shortly after 1:00 a.m. in the Del Webb community, located off Washington Street, north of the I-10 freeway. The blaze
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By Tamar Michaelis and Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A small group of reservists from Israel’s elite military intelligence unit joined a call for an immediate return of the hostages in Gaza even if it requires an immediate end to the war, in a sign of a growing protest movement after more than 18
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Weekend 1 of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival officially kicks off today. As festival goers travel in, expect some road closures and delays. Closures include: Avenue 49 between Hjorth Street and Monroe Street Avenue 50 between Madison Street and Jackson Street Hjorth Street between Avenue 49 and Avenue 50 Madison Street between Avenue 49
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By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The US announced it removed the commander of the Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Thursday because of a “loss of confidence in her ability to lead,” after Vice President JD Vance’s controversial visit to the semiautonomous island last month. “Actions to undermine the chain of command or to
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By Lauren Kent and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Peace is out of reach for Ukraine due to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing aggression, European defense ministers stressed Friday, even as the United States pushed ahead with talks with Moscow. Top Trump administration official Steve Witkoff met Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, shaking hands
Continue Reading By Gloria Pazmino, Lauren Mascarenhas and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A Louisiana immigration judge said Friday that Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil – a legal permanent resident – can be deported after the United States government argued his presence posed “potentially serious foreign policy consequences.” The decision by Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Jamee Comans
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is happy to talk about the financial markets when they’re rising, as they were on Wednesday, but when markets were falling Thursday in the aftermath of his remarkable turnabout on tariffs, he punted to the closest adviser around. This time, Treasury
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